LIGHTING CONTROL DEVICE FOR VEHICLE HEADLAMP, AND VEHICLE HEADLAMP SYSTEM

摘要

To avoid glaring a front vehicle that appears in a curved road ahead of a subject vehicle. A lighting control device for a headlamp of a vehicle includes: a lamp determining unit determining whether there is one light emitted from a lamp of a target vehicle, based on an image acquired by capturing the front of the vehicle by a camera; a light-blocking range setting unit setting a light-blocking range in accordance with the positions of the lamp based on the image; a curved road detection unit detecting a direction of a curved road, in cases where the curved road is present ahead of the vehicle; a light-blocking range correction unit providing an amount of correction to the light-blocking range according to the detected direction of the curved road; and a headlamp control unit driving the headlamp based on the corrected light-blocking range.